Archaeology and the Ancient World Commencement Ceremony

Sunday, May 29th, 2016

Following the ceremony on Brown's Main Green.
Rhode Island Hall

 

Presentations of Senior Thesis Research in Archaeology and the Ancient World

Friday, May 13th, 2016 at 3:30 pm

Senior concentrators in Archaeology and the Ancient World, Nathan Lovejoy, Monica Roth, and Robert Weiner, will share their thesis research in a series of 10-minute presentations.
This event is open to the public, and all are welcome!
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Archaeology DUG's End of the Year Social

Friday, May 13th, 2016 at 3:00 pm

The Archaeology & the Ancient World DUG will be hosting a social at 3:00 pm in Rhode Island Hall. All those interested in archaeology and the ancient world are welcome to attend. It's a wonderful chance to engage with others who share a love of archaeology! Refreshments will be served!
Sponsored by the Archaeology Departmental Undergraduate Group
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

Linking Climate Change with Cultural and Anthropological Events Using Recalcitrant Lipids in Archaeological Remains
Yongsong Huang (Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University)

Thursday, April 28th, 2016 from 12:00-1:00pm

Yongsong Huang is Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. He will present his research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall Room 108

 

Paul Meiliara (South Rift Association of Landowners, Kenya)

Monday, April 25th, 2016 at Noon

Paul Meiliara is chairman of the South Rift Association of Landowners (SORALO), a collaborative, community-based organization that represents Maasai landowners from 17 communities located across the 2.5 million acre South Rift Valley region of Kenya.
Co-sponsored by Brown University's IBES, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, and Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
85 Waterman Street (BERT), Room 015

 

The Phoenicians at the World’s Ends: The Formation of Mediterranean Civilization as Seen from the Island of Motya in Sicily
Lorenzo Nigro (“La Sapienza” University in Rome)

Thursday, April 21st, 2016 at 6:30pm

Fourteen seasons of excavations at Motya (2002-2015) revealed traces of the earliest Levantine and Phoenician habitation of the central Mediterranean, bringing to light the formative phase of Phoenician expansion to the West. The discovery of Building C8 and a series of wells in the earliest settlement, matched with other recent finds in the Iberian Peninsula (Cadiz), North Africa (Utica, Carthage) and Sardinia (Sulky) have significantly transformed the history of the 2nd and1st millennium BC Mediterranean. Examining the sea routes across the Mediterranean may help disentangle the intricate roots of our civilization—or suggest that a multicultural/ethnical approach is better for studying the historical scenario of the earliest centuries of the 1st millennium BC, when this enclosed sea became a melting pot for peoples and cultures.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall Room 108

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

Sea, Wall, Camp: Architecture and the Migration Crisis in Europe
Itohan Osayimwese (History of Art and Architecture, Brown University)

Thursday, April 21st, 2016 from 12:00-1:00pm

Itohan Osayimwese, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University, will present her research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall Room 108

 

Archaeology and Futurity

Thursday, April 14th–Friday, April 15th, 2016

In a particularly troubling academic climate that is witnessing departmental amalgamation and a relative dearth in full-time faculty hires, how does the discipline of archaeology envision its future? What is its role beyond the walls of the academy? Should archaeology be useful and, if so, for what purposes? This conference addresses archaeology’s potential role in contributing to pressing world problems including climate change, economic inequality, human rights, neocolonialism, and militarism.
This conference also seeks to address how futurity plays a role in how archaeologists confront the past in the present. Through a departure from linear time, this conference will explore alternative notions of time, material vestiges of the past in the present, and embodied experiences that transcend temporalities. If we accept that archaeology is a discipline about the present, how are we to think about time and futurity?
Keynote:
Laurent Olivier (National Museum of Archaeology at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France)
Closing Plenary:
Cornelius Holtorf (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Session Participants:
Laura McAtackney (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Uzma Rizvi (Pratt University, New York City, NY)
Chris Witmore (Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX)
Shannon Novak (Syracuse University, NY)
Krysta Ryzewski (Wayne State University, Detroit, MI)
Dimitris Papadopoulos (Columbia University, New York City, NY)
Bob Preucel (Brown University, Providence, RI)
Francois Richard (University of Chicago, IL)
LouAnn Wurst (Michigan Technical University, MI)
Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall Room 108, and List Art Building Room 120

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

Social Meanings of Fortified Landscape in the Iberian Iron Age
Ignasi Grau Mira (Universitat d'Alacant)

Thursday, April 14th, 2016 at 12:00pm

Ignasi Grau Mira is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology in the Department of Prehistory, Archaeology, Ancient History, Greek Philology and Latin Philology at the University of Alicante in Spain. He will present his research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall Room 108

 

Family Time: Weaving Networks of Women in the Ancient Greek World
Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool)

Monday, April 11th, 2016 at 5:30pm

Lin Foxhall is Head of the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool. She was previously a Professor of Greek Archaeology & History and Head of the School at the University of Leicester, and has also held posts at Oxford University, and University College London.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall Room 108

 

The Great Pompeii Project: New Life for the Dead City
Massimo Osanna (Soprintendenza Speciale Beni Archaeologici Pompei Ercolano Stabia)

Thursday, April 7th, 2016 at 5:30pm

Massimo Osanna is Superintendent of the Archaeological Site of Pompeii and Special Superintendence for Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabia, in Italy's Ministry of Heritage and Culture and Tourism. He is also Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Basilicata (Potenza/Matera).
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall Room 108

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

Pollentia (Mallorca, Balearic Islands): The Transformation of a Provincial Roman City
Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)

Thursday, April 7th, 2016 from 12:00-1:00pm

Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros is a research professor with the Catalan National Research Institute ICREA, and is based at the University of Barcelona. He is currently a Visiting Scholar in Archaeology at Brown University, and will present his research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall Room 108

 

Presentation of Dissertation Research:

Ad Fines Imperii: The Roman Army in Dacia and Arabia (2nd-3rd centuries CE)
Emanuela Bocancea (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)

Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 at 12:00pm

Emanuela Bocancea, a doctoral candidate in Archaeology and the Ancient World, will present her dissertation research in a public lecture. All are welcome.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 109

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

Putting the Dead in Their Place: Anatolian Cemeteries in Context
Pinar Durgun (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)

Thursday, March 24th, 2016 from 12:00-1:00pm

Pinar Durgun, a doctoral candidate in Archaeology and the Ancient World, will present her research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall Room 108

 

Presentation of Dissertation Research:

Reorienting Orientalization: Intrasite Networks of Value and Consumption in Central Italy
Jessica Nowlin (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016 at 1:00pm

Jessica Nowlin, a doctoral candidate in Archaeology and the Ancient World, will present her dissertation research in a public lecture. All are welcome.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Insularity and Epigraphy: The Case of Third-Century Delos
Christy Constantakopoulou (Birkbeck, University of London)

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 at 5:30pm

Dr. Constantakopoulou (Birkbeck, University of London) is an ancient historian who works on the history and culture of the ancient Greek world from the archaic to early hellenistic periods. Her main area of research is the history of the Aegean world and its islands. Her book, entitled The Dance of the Islands: Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire and the Aegean World, explored both the history of the islands in the archaic and classical period, as well as the way islands were portrayed in the sources of the period. The focus was on the way islands interacted and formed networks through maritime communications.
This lecture is part of the Graduate International Colloquium Series entitled, "Before Mare Nostrum Redivivuum: The Place of Islands in the Mediterranean".
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Presentation of Dissertation Research:

Mining Matters: Rural Communities and Industrial Landscapes in Roman Iberia (3rd century CE-2nd century CE)
Linda Gosner (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 at 12:00pm

Linda Gosner, a doctoral candidate in Archaeology and the Ancient World, will present her dissertation research in a public lecture. All are welcome.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Forgery in Chinese Epigraphy: The Case of the Yang Stele
Iiyama Tomoyasu (Waseda University)

Monday, March 21st, 2016 at 12:00pm

Closely reexamining steles in an eminent ancestral hall in Shanxi, China, this talk explores the hidden history of the hall from the fourteenth to sixteenth century. The steles collectively testify to the innovative strategies of redeployment and forgery that premodern Chinese families used to proclaim cultural authority over their local communities.
Dr. Iiyama is a Visiting Research Scholar in East Asian Studies at Yale University, and an Adjunct Researcher at Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Tokyo, Japan. He has worked on northern Chinese social history during the Jin-Yuan-Ming and published Northern Local Literati: Civil Service Examination and Its Social Influence in North China, 1127-1368 (in Japanese) in 2011.
Sponsored by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Chen Family Fund, Program in Early Cultures, and the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 008

 

Presentation of Dissertation Research:

Home Economics: Domestic Production and Household Industry in Classical and Hellenistic Greece
Katherine Harrington (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)

Friday, March 18th, 2016 at 1:00pm

Katherine Harrington, a doctoral candidate in Archaeology and the Ancient World, will present her dissertation research in a public lecture. All are welcome.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

Isn’t It Ionic? [Don’t You Think?]
Catherine Steidl (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)

Thursday, March 17th, 2016 from 12:00-1:00pm

Catherine Steidl, a doctoral candidate in Archaeology and the Ancient World, will present her research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

Settlement Pattern and Cultural Change from the Iron Age to the Roman Period in the Inland Valencia (Eastern Iberia)
David Quixal Santos (Universitat de València)

Thursday, March 10th, 2016 from 12:00-1:00pm

David Quixal Santos is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Valencia and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology. He will be discussing his research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Presentation of Dissertation Research:

The Diminishing Collective: Inequality and Social Complexity in Later Central Mediterranean Prehistory
Clive Vella (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)

Wednesday, March 9th, 2016 at 12:00pm

Clive Vella, a doctoral candidate in Archaeology and the Ancient World, will present his dissertation research in a public lecture. All are welcome.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

Urban Geography at the Classic Maya Center of Xultun, Guatemala: Neighborhoods and the Ordering of Space
Jonathan Ruane (Boston University)

Thursday, March 3rd, 2016 from 12:00-1:00pm

Jonathan Ruane earned his doctorate in Archaeology from Boston University in May 2015. He will be discussing his research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Archaeology and Egyptology DUGs Meet and Greet

Friday, February 26th, 2016 at 3:00pm

The Egyptology and the Archaeology & the Ancient World DUGs will be hosting a social at 3pm in the atrium outside Rhode Island Hall, Room 108. All those interested in archaeology, Egyptology, and the ancient world are welcome to attend. It's a wonderful chance to engage with others who share a love of ancient things! Refreshments will be served!
Sponsored by the Archaeology Departmental Undergraduate Group and the Egyptology Departmental Undergraduate Group
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall

 

Kitchen Colonialism or Blatant Miscegenation: Interpretation of Indus Cooking Pots in the Oasis Towns of Central Oman
Christopher Thornton (National Geographic Society)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 at 5:30pm

Dr. Christopher Thornton is Senior Director of the Cultural Heritage Initiative, and Lead Program Officer of Research, Conservation, and Exploration at the National Geographic Society.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

Mending Stone: Confronting Vibrant Matters in New England Heritage
Craig Cipolla (Royal Ontario Museum)

Thursday, February 18th, 2016 from 12:00-1:00pm

Craig Cipolla is Associate Curator of North American Archaeology at the Royal Ontario Museum and Director of the Mohegan Archaeological Field School (in collaboration with the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut). He will be discussing his research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Currents and Commodities: How Oceanographic Effects Influenced the Prehistoric Colonization of Islands
Scott M. Fitzpatrick (University of Oregon)

Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 at 5:30pm

Dr. Scott M. Fitzpatrick (University of Oregon) is an archaeologist who specializes in the archaeology of island and coastal regions, particularly the Pacific and Caribbean. Much of his research focuses on colonization events, seafaring strategies, adaptations to smaller islands, exchange systems, chronometric techniques, and human impacts on ancient environments. He has active field projects in Palau (western Micronesia) and several islands in the Caribbean, including Carriacou and Mustique in the Grenadines, as well as Nevis.
This lecture is part of the Graduate International Colloquium Series entitled, "Before Mare Nostrum Redivivuum: The Place of Islands in the Mediterranean".
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Archaeothanatology - a taphonomy of ritual practice. Reconstructing mortuary practices from archaeological sources. Examples from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe.
Liv Nilsson Stutz (Emory University)

Thursday, February 4th, 2016 at 5:30pm

Liv Nilsson Stutz is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University. She is an archaeologist and a biological anthropologist with an interest in the implementation of social theory in archaeology, especially practice theory, body theory and ritual theory. Her research related to these interests has been focused in burial archaeology. She is also interested in ethics and archaeology, cultural heritage politics and identity politics, especially as manifested in the repatriation debate. Stutz is involved in field projects in Latvia and Jordan.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Angkor Wat Temple, from Hindu to Buddhist Shrine
Chen Chanratana (University of Cambodia)

Monday, February 1st, 2016 at 5:30pm

Dr. Chen Chanratana is the Founder/President of Kerdomnel Khmer (KDNK) Group, mainly focused on Cambodian culture preservation and protection through a culture-themed magazine called “Kerdomnel Khmer”. He received a post-graduate degree in Archaeology, Art history of Southeast Asia from University of Sorbonne Paris III in France (2011). Then, he worked as a professor of archaeology, Khmer arts history and history of Southeast Asia and social research at Faculty of Archeology, Royal University of Fine Arts, Cambodia (in 2004). He was also in charge (2009-2010) of multiple programs at Southeast Asia Television (SEATV), and continues to publish in KDNK magazine and to and collaborate with Khmer Film Foundation to produce culture-themed films and the Cultural Road Show (starting 2013).
Sponsored by Brown University's Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Center for Language Studies, and Department of History of Art and Architecture.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Colonialism in Context: New Discoveries from Brown’s 2016 Field Season in Sudan
Laurel Bestock (Brown University)

Thursday, January 28th, 2016 at 5:30pm

Laurel Bestock, fresh from the trenches, will discuss her team's recent archaeological field season at the site of Uronarti, Sudan. Best known as the location of an Egyptian fortress built almost 4000 years ago, Uronarti is providing the Brown team an unprecedented opportunity to address strategies of living and colonial interactions in an ancient outpost. Prof. Bestock will present the most recent finds, showing how they help us to understand the nuances of Egyptian colonialism. She will also give a taste of the rigors of Uronarti life, modern and ancient, and highlight the methodological challenges and delights of working off-grid.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Contact and Identity: Archaeological and Osteological Approaches to the Greek Colonisation in Southern Italy
Giulia Saltini Semerari (VU University Amsterdam)

Tuesday, December 8th, 2015 at 5:30pm

Dr. Saltini Semerari is a Marie Curie Intra-European Postdoctoral Research Fellow at VU University Amsterdam. Her research interests include the Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age and Archaic Mediterranean, with a special focus on southern Italy and Greece; Mediterranean exchanges; excavation methodologies; transmission of technologies; archaeological theory, in particular: archaeology of death, gender, culture contact, colonization, identity, mobility.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity:
Studies in Honor of John F. Cherry

Friday, December 4th-Saturday, December 5th, 2015

Registration is required.

On December 4th and 5th 2015, a two-day event will be held at Brown University’s Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World in Providence, RI, to celebrate John Cherry’s long career in archaeology. This event will involve some light-hearted reminiscences on Friday evening, followed by substantive papers reflecting Professor Cherry’s wide influence on the field on the following day. The program will be oriented around the (appropriately broad) theme of regional approaches to society and complexity.
There is no cost to attend any portion of this conference, but registration is required.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

“Ramesses Was Here”: Royal Rock Inscriptions at the Ends of the Egyptian World
Jennifer Thum (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015 from 12:00-1:00pm

Jennifer Thum is a doctoral candidate in the Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, and will be discussing her research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires
Lori Khatchadourian (Cornell University)

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015 at 5:30pm

Lori Khatchadourian received her Ph.D. in Classical Art & Archaeology from the University of Michigan in 2008 and joined Cornell in 2010 as a Hirsch post-doctoral fellow in Archaeology. As an Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Studies, she has continued as co-director of a long-term collaborative field project in the Republic of Armenia called the Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies (Project ArAGATS), and as co-director of Cornell's Landscapes and Objects Laboratory.
This lecture is part of the 2014-2016 Mellon Graduate Workshop, "Worlds Divided: Interrogating Inequality Past and Present."
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Presentation of Dissertation Research:

Experiencing the Hittite Empire in Its Borderlands
Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology)

Monday, November 30th, 2015 at 3:00pm

Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver, a doctoral candidate in Archaeology and the Ancient World, will present her dissertation research in a public lecture. All are welcome.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

The Construction of Commemorative Landscapes in Rome’s Subura during the Imperial and Christian Periods
Margaret Andrews (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)

Thursday, November 19th, 2015 from 12:00-1:00pm

Margaret Andrews is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Joukowsky Institute at Brown University, and will be discussing her research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall Room 108

 

Antiquarianisms Across the Atlantic

Friday, November 13th-Saturday, November 14th, 2015

Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises; however, both existed long before the early modern period and both were (and continue to be) practiced by people other than Europeans. This symposium aims to trouble the divide between local and foreign antiquarian traditions by focusing on case studies drawn primarily from the eastern Mediterranean and central and South America.
Free and open to the public.
John Carter Brown Library and Rhode Island Hall

 

Archaeological Fieldwork Information Session

Thursday, November 12th, 2015 at 4:00pm

Where can you do fieldwork this summer? How can you pay for it? How do you apply? What's an UTRA grant? Should you enroll in a field school or volunteer? What courses should you take to prepare? Do you have to be an archaeology concentrator? What is fieldwork, anyway? And what about study abroad?
Download the Fieldwork Information Session 2015 Handout (Note: an updated handout will also be available at the meeting)
Sponsored by the Archaeology Department Undergraduate Group
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

The Art of War: Imagery, Ideology, Impact

Saturday, November 7th, 2015 from 9:30am-6:00pm

The Art of War conference seeks to understand the variety of relationships between war and imagery by bringing together scholars working on images of warfare from many different cultures and periods. Our approach is interdisciplinary, examining not only art but also historical and archaeological records. Using this comparative structure, we hope to generate questions that will allow participants from disparate fields to approach their material with new ideas, and to plumb the range of possible social understandings of both warfare and art.
Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall Room 108

 

The World’s Earliest Dated Tide Mill and Its Contribution to the Archaeology of Mills and Tidal Energy
Thomas McErlean (University of Ulster)

Thursday, November 5th, 2015 at 5:30pm

Thomas McErlean will discuss the story of the discovery the earliest mill in Ireland and the earliest presently known example of a tide mill in the world. The mill was constructed in the years AD 619-621 to service the Early Medieval monastery at Nendrum located on a tidal island in Strangford Lough in Ireland. The island was devoid of fresh water streams so the monks turned to the latent power of the twice-daily rise and fall of the tides, which washed the shore at the bottom of the monastic enclosure.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall Room 108

 

Next Steps: Information Session on Applying to Graduate School and Searching for Jobs in Archaeology

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015 at 4:00pm

A discussion, led by faculty and graduate students, for current undergraduates planning for life after Brown. We will discuss applying to graduate schools in Archaeology and Classics, as well as types of jobs students with Archaeology concentrations might consider.
View "Thinking of Graduate School" here: https://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/undergrad/grad.html. And see "All you really wanted to know about archaeology job postings" here: https://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/undergrad/archaeologyjobs.pdf
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall 108

 

Archaeology DUG Meet and Greet

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015 at 3:00pm

The Archaeology & the Ancient World Department Undergraduate Group will be hosting a social at 3pm in RI Hall. All Archaeology concentrators, as well as all those interested in archaeology and the ancient world, are welcome to attend. Want to learn more about fieldwork? Come on by! Want to chill with cool archaeology people? Come on by! Want free food? Sure, come on by!
Sponsored by the Archaeology Departmental Undergraduate Group
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall

 

Tróia (Grândola, Portugal) or the "Portuguese Troy" - A Mystery in the Edge of the Roman World: Space, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Mosaics
Filomena Limâo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Thursday, October 29th, 2015 at 6:30pm

The aim of the lecture is to introduce the historical and artistic heritage of the Roman archaeological site of Tróia (in English "Troy") located in the Southwestern Atlantic coast of Portugal. Tróia is the name of a peninsula on the left bank of the river Sado and despite having been subject of great interest and considerable studies since the sixteenth century CE, much remains to uncover about this place. Surrounded by an attractive natural environment, Tróia, conceivably an island in Antiquity, became an important Roman industrial complex in the first century BCE. Tróia displays noteworthy fish-salting workshops, diversified examples of architecture such as balnea (with remains of mosaics), insulae, diverse funerary monuments and an Early Christian Basilica with beautiful wall paintings. Although not numerous, the sculpture of Tróia (statuary, architectural sculpture and reliefs) is varied showing the relevance of this peripheral place in the intersection of religious (i.e. the Mithras cult and Christianity) and artistic movements of the Roman world. Tróia slowly declined through Late Antiquity (late fifth to early sixth century CE) but its historical and artistic legacy remains as one of the most eye-catching issues for the understanding of Antiquity in Portugal.
An anonymous gift to the AIA in 1997 established an endowment to support lectures on the archaeology of Portugal. The fund currently supports three lectures annually on any period of Portuguese prehistory/history. For more information, visit https://aianarragansett.org.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

A Connected Insularity: Conceptualizing Byzantium's Island Frontiers
Ian Randall (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)

Thursday, October 29th, 2015 from 12:00-1:00pm

Ian Randall is a doctoral candidate in Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, and will be discussing his research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

From Hill of the Pepper to Hill of the Wind: Congregation, Fissioning, and Indigenous Settlement Mobility in Colonial Mexico
Danny Zborover (The John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)

Monday, October 26th, 2015 at 5:30pm

Danny Zborover is a historical archaeologist specializing in Mesoamerican literate societies. He received his master�s degree from the University of Leiden and his Ph.D. from the University of Calgary, and was recently a lecturer at UCLA and UC San Diego. He is currently a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at Brown University’s John Carter Brown Library
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

“Not to Know Beer Is Not Normal”: The Archaeological Invisibility of Beer and Brewing in Bronze Age Mesopotamia
Tate Paulette (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University)

Thursday, October 22nd, 2015 from 12:00-1:00pm

Tate Paulette is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Joukowsky Institute at Brown University, and will be discussing his research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall Room 108

 

MORE Field Dirt: Even MORE Insider Stories and Results from 2015 Archaeological Field Seasons
Emily Booker, Linda Gosner, Brett Kaufman, and Clive Vella, with special guest Yannis Hamilakis (University of Southampton)

Monday, October 19th, 2015 at 5:30pm

After the stories of the faculty's Field Dirt last month, Professor Yannis Hamilakis (University of Southampton) will speak about his most recent fieldwork in northern Greece (last September!), followed by postdoctoral and graduate members of the Joukowsky Institute, who will speak about their Mediterranean exploits last summer:
   • Yannis Hamilakis on Greece
   • Brett Kaufman on Tunisia
   • Emily Booker on Turkey
   • Linda Gosner on Sardinia, Italy
   • Clive Vella on Pantelleria, Italy
To be followed by a reception.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

International Archaeology Day and Brown University Family Weekend, I
Joukowsky Institute Open House: Archaeology in Action

Saturday, October 17th, 2015, 11:00am-3:00pm

Come visit the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World in Rhode Island Hall. Faculty and students will be on hand to tour you through the building, as well as to show you artifacts and images, both from some of our current fieldwork (in the Caribbean, Egypt, Italy, Jordan, Turkey, and Rhode Island) and from the Institute's collections.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, 60 George Street

 

International Archaeology Day and Brown University Family Weekend, II
Archaeology of College Hill Community Archaeology Day

Saturday, October 17th, 2015, 11:00am-3:00pm

Watch Brown undergraduates digging (yes, really digging!). This year, as part of ongoing work on Brown's campus and in the surrounding neighborhoods of College Hill, students will be excavating at the nearby Moses Brown school. Stop by (with your family or on your own) any time between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm to see what we're up to or try your hand at digging. All are welcome!
Moses Brown School, 250 Lloyd Avenue (Excavation at the corner of Hope Street and Lloyd Avenue)

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

El Contrato del Mar: Forced Resettlement and Maritime Subsistence at Carrizales, Zaña Valley, Peru
Parker VanValkenburgh (Anthropology, Brown University)

Thursday, October 15th, 2015 from 12:00-1:00pm

Parker VanValkenburgh recently joined the Department of Anthropology at Brown University as Assistant Professor of Anthropology, and will be discussing his research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Sicilian Channel Islands and Mainlands: Cleavages and Connections
Emma Blake (University of Arizona)

Wednesday, October 14th, 2015 at 5:30pm

Emma Blake studies Italy in the second and first millennia BCE. She has conducted fieldwork in northwest Sicily for many years, first as an Assistant Director on the Monte Polizzo excavations, and since 2008 as Co-Director of the Marsala Hinterland Survey, an intensive field survey along the coast adjacent to the Phoenician colony of Motya. Her book, Social Networks and Regional Identity in Bronze Age Italy, was published by Cambridge University Press (2014).
This lecture is part of the 2015-2016 Mellon Graduate Workshop, "Islands of History: Insularity, Connectivity and the 'Island' Experience".
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

Small Farm to Large Scale Plantation: The Shift to Capitalism and Slavery in Barbados and a Preliminary Look at "The Cave of Iron"
Douglas Armstrong (Syracuse University)

Thursday, October 8th, 2015 from 12:00-1:00pm

Douglas Armstrong, Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University, will be discussing his research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

 

Brown Bag Series in Archaeology

Hinterland History and Hierarchy: The Transformation of a Late Classic Maya Landscape
Nicholas Carter (Haffenreffer Museum, Brown University)

Thursday, October 1st, 2015 from 12:00-1:00pm

Nicholas Carter, Research Affiliate at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University, will be discussing his epigraphic work with monuments from the Guatemalan sites of Ixkun, Sacul, and Ixtonton, and how their contents can be correlated with settlement survey work and archaeological stratigraphy. Pizza and soda will be provided, or feel free to bring a lunch.
For a full list of Archaeology Brown Bag talks, please visit https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/events/brown-bag-series/.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108